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6/29/1999 by Jesse

Mad Coops - 2:06

The announcement in last update about the Mad Coops [tm] was a true success; many people joined the fray. Sometimes we were actually able to do a good run, but sometimes it was pure lag hell :) The first run was a 3-player id-coop: The second was a crazy super-lagged 100% of >Cult (modified version) with 6 players: We also managed to record two better demos on Doom2_08: Enjoy!

6/27/1999 by Jesse

Various news items - 7:33

Some good and some bad news today. Let's start with the bad.

A few weeks ago, a few SDA regulars told us we should have a closer look at the demos from a specific person, as they were all quite odd; monster behaviour was weird, as if the recording was done at <10 fps. Yet the demos contained lots of tricks and bunnies, both impossible at such framerates. When our tech-guys examined the demos more closely, they turned out to be recorded on a host_framerate setting other than 0, which we consider cheating as hopefully all of you know.

This person was Romanov Maxim. We have tried to contact him about this matter but sadly, he has not responded. Since his cheating was undeniably proven, we will take the neccessary steps and remove all of his demos from the system, even though only two of them have been examined. We will not accept any new demos from Romanov in the future anymore, cheated or not.

It's a sad matter, and it sucks to see that there are people that will go as far as cheating just to get their name up on a site where getting that little bit of fame is all there is. There's no money involved, we're doing this for purely for fun, and people like this are seriously spoiling that. His suckage is beyond words.

All of the records Romanov broke are now restored. Here they are.

Easy runs: Easy 100%: Nightmare runs: Nightmare 100%: Thankfully, there's some good news too: I got my t1 connection, finally :) This means that I'm now able to host madcoop running! wh00p! To test it, Will, Optic, Marlo and me gave it a try: we did a 4p easy 100% run of Doom2_01 in 0:16, it was great fun, even though not all pings were good (Marlo ran with a 400 ping). If you want to join in some madcoop action, contact me at ICQ UIN 10962661; I'm pretty sure there will be lots of it this week, starting from tonight (my server is located in The Netherlands btw).

Last of today's issues is RDE: I've resumed work on the very last level and will try to keep track of my progress on the RDE Progress page as much as possible. If you haven't already, make sure you download the Anti-Bunny Code and go to the Anti-Bunny Code Testing page to see how you can test it and how to send me your feedback - I really need this to decide whether or not to include the ABC! Thanks!

6/27/1999 by Ilkka

Three new demos on Nightmare skill - 4:34

I will be gone for about a week now, and I'm expecting to find lots of demos in my mailbox when I come back. Optic, only about 140 demos left to fill up :)

Fabian improved one of Optic's demos:

Optic played the same level, and filled up the tables with this demo:

I recorded one tablefiller too:


6/25/1999 by Ilkka

The usual stuff + four coop demos - 2:00

More demos from Optic:

Two demos from Fabian:

Coop demos

Here goes some new co-ops by me and Jesse :

Last but not least, a cool run by Marlo & Fabian:


6/23/1999 by Ilkka

Quick update - 11:13

Kimmo Polvivaara did an improvement for Mexx9a:

I recorded three demos to fill up the tables:


6/22/1999 by Ilkka

New demos - 11:05

Marlo has recorded five improvements:

Fabian has done two custom level 100%s:

Optic improved one of my old ID demos:

Even though Thomas' easy 100% on Networld didn't get posted, here goes his nightmare 100%:

Qurre recorded another demo:

Finally, I have done three demos:


6/18/1999 by Ilkka

Finally got rid of this damn update :) - 7:44

We've got lots of cool demos from Romanov:

Optic has recorded these demos:

Qurre did his first SDA demo:

I also recorded a demo:


6/15/1999 by Ilkka

18 demos - 14:19

Daniel Lindberg sent seven demos:

Thomas keeps on filling up the tables. Five new demos this time:

Optic sent only three demos:

Finally, three demos from Romanov. Very cool grenadejumps in these:


6/13/1999 by Ilkka

More demos - 12:01

Markus Taipale improved both E4M4 runs:

Optic did five custom level 100%s:

Romanov Maxim has also done five demos:

Marlo Galinski improved three records from Optic:

Thomas Bergendorff filled the tables with two new demos:

Contest results at Mineral's

I posted the Warehouse contest results over at Mineral's last night. Head over there to see who won and remember to check out the refilmed winning entrys!


6/10/1999 by Jesse

Speed Completily Beyond Belief released - 13:41

As a celebration of the 2nd anniversary of the release of QdQ's first production, we proudly present to you: Speed Completily Beyond Belief, two 100% episoderuns (easy and nightmare) through all of Beyond Belief. It's available at the Quake done Quick page in several formats (the full version of SCBB contains the levels themselves too, since some of you probably don't have them yet). Go get it!

6/10/1999 by Jesse

Unreal Speedrunning Starts - 1:12

In case you haven't already seen them, head over to the once again pioneering LostSpirit Custom Level Demos to check out the world's first Unreal speedruns. They even feature some tricks! Please note that you probably need a recent version to playback the demos (2.24), and even that is no guarantee the demos will run on your machine as Unreal's democode is not as solid as Quake's. Anyway, they should provide some very good entertainment so head over there now!

Dont forget that the Ware contest over at Mineral's ends tomorrow, so if you haven't sent your demo yet, make sure you do it before the dealine!

Third link of the day is the Runner's Delight progress page which was updated today with a screenshot from the intro cinematic.

6/8/1999 by Ilkka

Another pile of new demos - 7:55

Yeah, lots of cool demos again. The quality in custom level demos is getting better all the time. For today, there are 19 new demos, which is more than 40 minutes speedrunning. Enjoy :)

Optic

He improved Romanov's PB1 runs:

filled up the tables with these nightmare 100% demos:

Thomas Bergendorff

Three new 100% demos from Thomas:

Romanov

Romanov sent these improvements:

Ilkka

I filled up the nightmare 100% tables with these demos:

Others

Andy Olivera did his first demo for SDA: Lostworld in 14:21 - Nightmare 100%, new. Must be close to optimized ;)
Marlo improved Retards newish BNT easy 100% getting 2:46. 20 seconds faster.


6/4/1999 by Ilkka

Quick update - 13:40

I decided to enter "the End of Time madness":


6/4/1999 by Ilkka

Some demos - 12:07

Romanov has sent more demos:

Optic improved one of his SoA records:

I recorded one demo too:

That's all for now. Keep on sending the demos!


6/3/1999 by Ilkka

More custom level demos - 7:13

Optic did four demos:

FAB did three demos:

Romanov did three demos:

I did two demos filling up the IKSPQ 100% tables:

That's all for now. More demos coming later...


6/1/1999 by Tangent

Quake 2 Update: Better Late Than Never - 3:03

Ok... I know I promised to try my best to update last Wednesday, but something came up. I decided to buy myself a new computer, a P3-450 192mb with Riva TNT2, and man, does it rock. I used to be running Q2 on 320x200 software at 25fps, now I'm on 800x600 accelerated at 60fps, and the difference just blew me away.

Anyway, apart from this there are 21 new demos this update. Not as much as you might expect considering the delay, but this is mostly because many of the runners have been busy working on Quake 2 done Quick 2. By my current estimates, the first person perspective version could be available perhaps by end of the month.

Alright, let's start off with newcomer Paul Carlsson's demos Runs from Mr-J[!!] Runs from Sean Crooks, who clocks the most number of demos for this update: Runs from Jesper Lund: Last but not the least, one more fun from Aivars: Grab this update's packs:

5/31/1999 by Ilkka

New demos - 6:17

Right. There were some mistakes in my previous update:

1. Church 1:09 was nightmare run.
2. Church 1:11 demo was easy 100%.
3. The correct time for Romanov's h3m4 nightmare run is 1:20, not 0:46. Apologies.

New demos

We have two 100%s from Optic:

FAB did four singleplayer demos:

Romanov did two demos:

Marlo did four two demos:

Retard did his first SDA demo:

Hopefully I didn't screw up this time. More demos will be posted when I have time.


5/29/1999 by Jesse

New contest - 17:14

Woohoo, even though he's doing updates to SDA like a madman, Ilkka still managed to set up a new speedrunningcontest over at Mineral's. This time, the contest map was made by SDA-regular Attila; get the map and start running!

5/29/1999 by Ilkka

Lots of demos - 2:15

Here goes most of the demos you've been sending during the last few days. The remaining ones will be updated when I have time. I'm having exams at the moment, so I'm not able to update too often.

Single player demos

Daniel keeps on running. He did all new records for Disgrace:

Attila did something definitely Beyond belief:

Romanov did two impressive demos:

Marlo's new demos:

Demos from others:

Coop demos

Attila & Peter ran mostly BBelief:

Marlo & FAB recorded two new coops:


5/25/1999 by Ilkka

Small update - 9:24

Only two demos this time. The first one is by Fabian Kollakowski:

And the second demo is by me for Prodigy Special Edition:


5/24/1999 by Tangent

Quake 2 Demos - 9:36

Yes, sorry, I haven't been available to update the Q2 section for a while. Just found out that I have even free less time during holidays than during exams. Sheesh... What I need to do is to blackmail Illka into doing it for me I guess. Anyway, I should be updating on Wednesday.

5/24/1999 by Ilkka

26 demos! - 7:05

Woah, lots of demos for one update! I was quite busy during the last few days so I couldn't update these earlier. Anyway, some of the following demos are REALLY cool. Definitely worth downloading, enjoy :)

Single player demos

Markus Taipale strikes against my ID records:

Marlo has not slept enough lately. First of all he improved all of Matthias' FR Castle records:

And he did several other demos too:

Romanov Maxim has recorded three new demos:

Max Rebo wants to reach the optimized time for Critters:

Thomas Bergendorff kills a lot of monsters:

Coop demos

Attila & Peter:

Tommi Kyntölä & Kari Valtiala:

And finally, Marlo & FAB did quite a few easy 100%:


5/22/1999 by Jesse

New demos - 2:49

Some pretty good demos that have been lying around for a while, untouched by the updating-tsunami that is Ilkka Kurkela =)

Richard Skidmore did two demos: Asmodeus did four demos: Custom-demo master Optic submitted three runs today: Some madness on Mexx2, by Ilkka and me (it's been ages since I did my last run) All demos from this update can be found in one big zip here.

Runner's Delight Episode

The progress on the project has been good lately. For those of you that don't check the progress-page regularly (you should :), I set the ultimate release date to the 30th of July a while back; check out the Runner's Delight Progress Page for the full scoop, as well as today's news about the anti-bunny code and betatesting.

5/20/1999 by Ilkka

Harm's Way Madness - 11:13

I just recorded a new demo:


5/20/1999 by Ilkka

More custom demos - 7:11

Daniel Lindberg does more impressive demos:

Daniel has all the records for End of Time now. Great job :)

Optic has been hunting:

Romanov Maxim:

Then we have a demo from Carl Tholin:


5/17/1999 by Ilkka

A handful of custom demos - 10:08

Matthias Belz improved Corporal ][ 100%s:

Alexander Osipov:

Filip Söderholm:


5/17/1999 by Nazgul

Kåre takes on the Netherworld... - 7:40

Kåre Slettnes did a 100% Easy run of Episode 3 in 9:37, 1:15 faster than Marlo. This run is only 50 seconds slower than qd100ql - very impressive!

5/16/1999 by Ilkka

Hunter - 10:39

I messed up with that Hunter demo on my last update: The demo was made by Goetzenzar.

Anyway, Filip Söderholm sent a new demo for Hunter. He ran it in 0:58 just a while ago. Apologies to everyone.


5/16/1999 by Ilkka

Single + Coop demos - 5:04

Single Player Demos

Optic does 5 demos:

Daniel Lindberg:

Filip Söderholm:

Coop Demos

Attila Csernyik & Peter Horvath:

Filip Söderholm & Jesper Lund:

Marlo Galinski & Fabian Kollakowski:


5/14/1999 by Nazgul

One Run, One Coop, One Marathon - 7:05

First of all Asmodeus sent us a Nightmare 100% of Cult in 0:51 - 6 seconds faster than Matthias.

Mad Coops

Matthias Berggren, Gunnar Rydberg and Fredrik Egerstad did a Mad Coop of bb7 in 0:27 - new!

Marathon

Matthias Berggren and Fredrik Egerstad have run the first coop marathon:

Marathon runs can be found here, + a reminder that all Marathon runs should go to me - not all of SDA :-)

5/12/1999 by Ilkka

New Demos - 13:42

First of all, Alexander Osipov improved Stefan's newish e3m5 nightmare 100% yet by 25 seconds:

Then to the custom levels. Daniel Linberg has produced seven impressive demos:

Romanov Maxim does some great demos:

Max Rebo optimizes his Critters [suprise, suprise :)] 100% skill 3 by one second:

Filip Söderholm improves Janne's Doom2_08 easy 100% by 2 seconds:


5/11/1999 by Nazgul

New Quake patch out - 6:06

For the two or three of you that don't know, there's this cool new patch for Quake out called "Quake 3 Arena" and the test version was released today.

I know it's nothing to do with speedrunning but it's worth a look. Hint if you're having trouble downloading it: it should have propogated to the mirrors by now.


5/10/1999 by Ilkka

Marlo Mania - 9:33

Marlo Galinski has done 16 new records for several custom levels! Nice demos Marlo, keep up the good work :)

Death Church: (map)

Corporal II: (map)

Dark Ages: (map)

End of Time: (map)

IKSPQ 5: (map)

Jawbreak: (map)

Prodigy Special Edition -episode: (download)

Retinal Tear: (map)

The Underworld: (map)


5/10/1999 by Ilkka

ID, SoA and DoE demos - 5:42

Attila Csernyik improved my e1m4 easy run by two seconds:

Alexander Osipov does a new e1m2 nightmare 100%:

Stefan Schwoon spent some time in the Wind tunnels:

Romanov Maxim does a new hip1m1 nightmare record:

Optic has all the records in r1m1 now:

More demos coming soon...


5/7/1999 by Nazgul

How to annoy Optic :) - 9:44

First of all newcomer Daniel Lindberg has sent in 3 runs.

Bridges and Towers:

End of Time:

e2m4 war continues...

Kimmo Polvivaara did an Easy run in 0:46 - one second faster than Optic.


5/6/1999 by Evan

E2M1 + E2M4 Run's - 14:09

First off I would like to welcome Ilkka to the SDA team and hope he has a great time working with all of us :)

Peter Horvath does two incredible new 100%'s! (I guess he's still got it!)

Kimmo Polvivaara improves Optic's E2M4 Nightmare run by 5 seconds getting 1:00.

Also, the SDA team would like to make it clear that all marathon runs should be sent directly to Nazgul and not the whole SDA team.


5/6/1999 by Nazgul

New complete run - 10:39

Marlo Galinski has run Quake on easy in 18:33, 2:01 faster the the previous record and 1:16 faster than the original Quake Done Quick!

Marathon runs can be found here.


5/6/1999 by Ilkka

SdSlite Demos - 5:06

When SdSlite was recorded back in 1998, the old hip1m1, hip2m1 and hip3m1 records were broken. As these demos started with the default stats, I decided to post them. Quality stuff :)

We also have a new custom level demo by Optic:


5/5/1999 by Ilkka

Another improvement - 13:07

Markus just improved his new e3m1 nightmare run yet by one second:


5/5/1999 by Ilkka

e3m1 runs + some custom demos - 8:26

First of all, Markus Taipale improves my e3m1 runs with excellent running:

Then some new custom level demos. Fabian Kollakowski does 5 demos:

Found two forgotten demos that I recorded some months ago:

More custom demos coming soon...


5/4/1999 by Ilkka

New e1m4 nightmare run - 10:59

I just recorded a demo that you HAVE to download. It features a cool new trick, thanks to BlacK_OuT for the idea:

BTW, Hit The Roof contest results are posted at Mineral's. Go check them out if you still haven't...


5/4/1999 by Ilkka

8 new demos - 6:17

Optic reclaims e2m4 and does some BBelief demos:

Attila Csernyik improves my old e2m1 nightmare run:

Mattias Berggren improves both r2m5 runs:

Finally, I managed to improve hip1m3:


5/3/1999 by Ilkka

Small update - 9:16

Kimmo Polvivaara did a new e2m4 nightmare run:

Thomas Bergendorff improves a DoE map:


5/3/1999 by Ilkka

Some new demos - 5:21

Alright, here goes my first update. Most of you already know me, but for those who don't, my name is Ilkka Kurkela and I have been speedrunning for about a year here at SDA. Here goes some SoA easy runs that I did some days ago:

We have a new nightmare 100% demo from Marlo Galinski:

Marlo also did a coop with FAB:


5/2/1999 by Evan

Amazing New Demos! - 9:31

Markus Taipale attacks the original Quake runs again getting some great new times. Why is it Markus never comments in his text? Doesn't he have anything to say about his great demos?!

My old buddy Ilkka Kurkela has improved some times also.

Peter Horvath does a nightmare run of E1M4 in 0:30 which improves Optics time by 16 seconds(!) using a very impressive ogre grenade jump.

Attila Csernyik and Peter Horvath did a couple of coop's.

Marlo Galinski and Fabian Kollakowski have improved Ilkka and Juho's time of E1M1 by 1 second getting 0:34.

As always it will take a little while for the demos to mirror so dont send any flame mails about broken links.


4/30/1999 by Nazgul

More Hipnosis - 11:00

Ilkka has Hipnotised himself again with two more Scourge of Armagon marathons:

4/26/1999 by Nazgul

Marathon Runs Update - 13:36

More Episode one fun this time from Peter Horvath, he ran it on Nightmare in 4:31 - 19 seconds faster than Ilkka

Newcomer Tosun Okuyanakosun (a fellow Linux user :-)) did a complete easy run in 20:34 - 1:15 faster than Matthias.

Check out the Marathon tables here. Expect more Marathon runs soon!


4/18/1999 by Tangent

Oops! - 10:09

Sorry about the bad link to Optic's nightmare 100% marathon run on Ep1. It's fixed now.

4/16/1999 by Nazgul

Episode 1 Madness Continues - 6:58

Optic and Ilkka have been running Episode 1 on Nightmare... Very impressive demos - check them out! :)

4/15/1999 by Evan

ID Demo Update! - 19:59

Markus Taipale did two great new demos.

Kåre Slettnes does a Nightmare 100% of E3M2 in 1:43 improving Will's time by 9 seconds (sorry for the wait Kåre).

Marlo Galinski did an Easy 100% Marathon Run of Episode 3 in 10:51 new to the tables.

Mad Coops

Filip Söderholm, Jesper Lund, Albin Thorning, and Martin Thorning did some Mad-Coops.

I know there are more ID demos to be updated but I only had a little bit of time to do this small update so expect another soon.


4/15/1999 by Tangent

Exams Suck - 14:56

Nolan and I will be having exams until May 1st. Meanwhile, we do not have the time to update q2timer or the Quake 2 speedruns, so please bear with us through this... difficult period. Now, now, I know you all wish us well for the exams, there's no need to spam our e-mail boxes with good luck wishes. :)

4/15/1999 by Jesse

Contest; Corrections - 13:57

New Contest up at Minerals

Ilkka and I have been working on a new speedrunning contest-pak, which has been released today. Head over to Mineral's to download it straight away. Unlike earlier contests, it features an intro-movie! Actually, it's not like any of the other contests, when you download it you'll find out soon enough ;)

Corrections

Last update I mentioned the new e4m1_019 demo, and said Marlo Galinski made it; I was wrong, it was ofcourse done by Markus Taipale. Sorry Markus. The error is fixed now.

Another mistake I made was uploading Marlo&FAB's coop easy 100% of e1m1: Ilkka and Juho already did this demo a long time ago, before M&F. Sorry all... Get the new 0:35, run now.

I got a demo by Asmodeus recorded on the level Area 51. Asmo got the level from /levels/a-c/area51.zip. on CDROM, but unfortunately, this isn't the Area 51 we have listed here at SDA! Anyway, I'm not adding the demo to the tables, but I can understand the confusion, so here's Asmo's 1:02 nightmare run to watch. Note that you need the level linked above. (The Area 51 in the SDA tables can be found here.).

He also did these runs: Finally, Ilkka did one custom run too: Runner's Delight

The RDE-progress page is updated with another screenshot.

id-demos

There are a lot of id-demos that need to be posted, we know (even one that has been waiting since january, argh!). Coming soon, please be patient....

4/12/1999 by Tangent

Demtool and Marathon Runs - 8:39

Just a message from Stefan, the author of QdQstats: 
Hi,

I probably didn't make this clear enough (although it's written
in QdQstats' textfile :p) In order to use the dem->pak converter,
one needs demtool in some directory that's in the PATH variable
(or, alternatively, one can edit the batch file and change the
line that calls demtool, adding the correct path).

Without demtool, all the demos will be separated and put into
one .pak, but they won't be chained which makes the whole process
somewhat pointless (or at least, the outcome is not as good as
it should be).

Stefan

4/11/1999 by Jesse

New demos - 16:01

Some new custom demos, and since all of the people that usually update id demos are lost, I decided to do them too.

Marlo Galinski and Fabian Kollakowski smashed a lot of pretty fast coop-times; they did 100% demos of the first 4 maps of both episode 1 and 3, and some others. Marlo also did some single player runs: Fabian submitted a really nice single player demo too: Newcomer Tommi Kyntola did a pretty nightmare 100% of e3m1: There are some more demos waiting; this week, promise =)

4/8/1999 by Nazgul

Ilkka goes Hipnotic - 11:21

Ilkka sent me two SoA easy runs a week ago, sorry for the delay in posting them! As ever these can be found on the Marathon Runs table.

Who will be the first to try a DoE marathon? :)


4/5/1999 by Tangent

"(QdQ) under 20 (minutes) is doubtful" - Anthony - 2:23

I received this email from an anonymous user, forwarding to me a 2 year old email from Anthony Bailey (leader of the QdQ team) to the other runners in the QdQ Project: 
From baileya@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Apr 18 15:18:44 CES 1997
Subject: Re: all 11 messages I got!

Here's a quick bit of crystal-gazing... It looks like we will beat the
initially proposed four minute mark on Episode 1 by a mile. I'm
figuring less than 3:30 for the entire episode! Episode 2 I reckon
less than 5:30 but there could be complications meaning changes in
either direction. I'll be pessimistic with Episode 3 and just say less
than 6:00 - I know the routes, but have little idea how long they
take. The same for Episode 4.

An entire run of Quake (all 4 episodes plus Shub - ignore the between
mission stages as the viewers are going to need breaks between all
that action!) will definitely work in substantially less than 25
minutes. Whether it can be squeezed under 20 is a bit more doubtful,
but that *is* roughly the sort of time we should be expecting.

Please don't save this e-mail and embarass me with it later when I'm
proved so terribly, horribly wrong on all counts! (c:
Now for a reality check:

Episode Anthony's Prediction QdQ QdQr
Episode 1 3:30 3:24 2:57
Episode 2 5:30 6:01 4:34
Episode 3 6:00 4:32 4:13
Episode 4 6:00 5:16 4:17
Entire Quake 20:00+ 19:49 16:35

4/2/1999 by Tangent

Quake II Update - 1:35

Whew... 19 new Quake 2 demos. Sorry it took so long to update.

These are the demos from Optic: Aivars submits a couple more hard ones: Black_Out is back and finally doing some Q2 running: Mr-J[!!] submits his first Q2 run: Sean submits a lot of demos, and (surprise!) none of them are short maps: Grab this update's packs:

4/1/1999 by Tangent

Quake Completed in 10:00! - 23:32

And this is no April Fool's joke. The Quake done Quick team has just released Fiend Run Lite, a speed run through of Quake in 10:00, morphed as a fiend. It is available as both a movie (check out the great models) and first perspective. Go get it now!

4/1/1999 by Jesse

RDE Released! - 0:07

Finally it's here. Finally! After months of hard work, Runner's Delight is now officially released! To most of you, this will probably come as a surprise, and actually I was a bit surprised myself everything worked out so well and fast as I was fixing the last problems.

For those of you that don't know: RDE is a missionpack for speedrunners; it contains six new levels that are especially designed for speedrunning, but it can be played as a standard singleplayer episode too, and also has full coop and DM support.

RDE is now available as an 8 meg zip file over at the download section over at the RDE page.